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by mtrower 4y ago
That thing where recurring payments subtract from your PayPal balance before the assigned payment method is, as you put it, absolutely infuriating. It put me off of PayPal so hard.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Sure. Context matters here. The person I was responding to, gave literally none outside a few snippets of the parent. The context I was following down from the top was (mainly) "obvious parody".
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by mtrower 4y ago
It tells you at most what public perception is, whether it aligns with reality, or not.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Yes, and I'm saying it's asinine, as is the mentality that promotes it as normal.
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by mtrower 4y ago
> It seems to be just Batman and the Joker who feel society owes them a blood debt for the pain it caused them. This seems to be going a bit off the rails, I guess I'll just say the Batman I'm familiar with seems to be differen
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by mtrower 4y ago
Fair. > There are also examples of people who did just fine in jail. Most, probably, from what I've seen. At least in my area. However... > a prisoner’s well being is at the whim of those in charge. Don't forget the other
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by mtrower 4y ago
That statistic doesn't mean anything obvious at all. It might mean something, but it sure as hell isn't obvious (unless you have an agenda to push, then whatever you're interested in is "obvious" and "true&quo
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by mtrower 4y ago
> Spending a weekend in our hellish jails Have you actually spent a weekend in jail?
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by mtrower 4y ago
> sociopath with a bat fetish who assaults the poor and the mentally ill > padded cell where he belongs Times change, and the heroes of yesteryear become the villains of tomorrow. Seems to me there's a quote about that. In a jus
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by mtrower 4y ago
That's not protection, that's... payment in advance.
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by mtrower 4y ago
> What if the first words associated with policing were "serving the community" Then the job would be "community service"; we have that in the form of, say Red Cross. Policing by definition is anti-crime in purpose.
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by mtrower 4y ago
>> It had the police department logo > Doesn't matter. Uh, actually, if nothing else --- this should definitely matter. >> But, as we now know, the vast majority of people do not fact check. They take dumb shit like th
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by mtrower 4y ago
Intent is a large part of law to begin with.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Where I'm at (Madison, WI), it's more like multiple times per year. This is a capitol city . Recently, I stayed for three months on a mountain in Virginia. We lost power at least 6 times, usually for multiple hours. Once it wa
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by mtrower 4y ago
Well tbh I didn't realize that Thunderbird had an Android release. Looks to be about a year old? That's super new in the history of Thunderbird, and I don't know anything about how it works. If there's no theming suppo
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by mtrower 4y ago
I would argue that panicking very much makes it somebody else's immediate problem. By this logic, it kind of seems like no function should ever return errors at all -- handle the situation or panic, right? Sure, kicking the ball up the
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by mtrower 4y ago
Themes won’t get you what you want?
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by mtrower 4y ago
Commercial has to make money somehow, directly or indirectly. Plenty of software has been released gratis over the years under proprietary licenses.
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by mtrower 4y ago
It was Debian, with libav. Presumably Ubuntu followed suit, as they tend to.
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by mtrower 4y ago
> a first date where I scold the lady on her use of proprietary software: "Please install this XAMPP-Mastodon-Matrix chat app from the F-Droid store or I won't speak to you again" The hero we needed, unsung and forgotten.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Industrial gear? What are you talking about here? Examples?
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by mtrower 4y ago
> My 12 year old Mac laptop is dead because MacOS does not allow me to upgrade past a certain version, and the cryptography primitives do not update past that so no recent browsers support the platform What version of macOS are you stuc
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by mtrower 4y ago
> Also EAC is a lots more user friendly that some python software. User friendly is a matter of opinion.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Yes, they were a really big deal at the time, before security concerns came along and sunk them.
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by mtrower 4y ago
That's an interesting approach to consider, thanks!
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by mtrower 4y ago
To think I'd live to see the day the JVM is regarded as "really, really fast". Ruby is not "pretty fast". The hardware you run it on is insanely, mind bogglingly, out of this world fast and so people don't not
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by mtrower 4y ago
...for some value of "huge" that others might take issue with. From my perspective, python was just starting to gain real popularity in the mid 2000s, more than half a decade after Google was founded...
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by mtrower 4y ago
But you know. Everything you said can easily be imagined to apply to humans as well. You can’t see your own programming, and so can’t fully understand it, and so you imagine it to be something more than what it is.
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by mtrower 4y ago
This is true, and many bitter wars are fought over ISS licensing. I’m not sure it derails his point - there’s an awful lot of BSD, MIT etc licensed code out there.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Your art is fascinating; how can I donate to the cause?

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